Philosophy by the Way

Oradour-sur-Glane, France: Massacred and destroyed by the Nazis out of revenge,  10 June 1944. Being moral or exercising power. Often it is ...

Random quote Such as make it their business to oversee human actions, do not find themselves in anything so much perplexed as to reconcile ...

Person without permanent residence Who controls the language controls the mind. Philosophically, there is a lot to say about this statement ...

Random quote The brain is part of the mind; but the mind is not part of the brain. Markus Gabriel (1980-)

Vilnius, Lithuania: Bronze sculpture Aukojimas (The Sacrifice) created by sculptor Darius Braziunas and architect Arturas Asauskas. Memorial...

Random quote Never Throw Down Your Weapons. When blind fold Hatred’s claws are shown: And Falsehood swings come dark behind, Stand to yo...

Sometimes it is helpful to view things from an unusual perspective. What I often miss in the views of many politicians is a feeling how othe...

Random quote How regrettable it is that many Great Man committed his almost superhuman acts like a dupe, like an insane one! With the initi...

Some philosophers with a big impact on human thinking are almost forgotten. Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is one of them. I guess that...

Random quote Human feeling becomes indignant when brutal and brute trade measures are taken against innocent nations, purely for their own ...

Abstract portrait of Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis on a barn somewhere in the North of the Netherlands At the end of the First World War (191...

Random quote From the time when man stole the fire from heaven and learned to work the iron, since he forcibly brought the animals and his ...

“…why, in giving your estimate of a man, do you prize him wrapped and muffled up in clothes…” In his essay “Of the inequality amongst us” ( ...

Random quote We live in a possessed world. And we know it. It would not be unexpected for anyone if the madness suddenly broke out in a fre...

The nymph Echo spied Narcissus, who had been lost in a wood, and she became immediately infatuated, following him, waiting for him to speak ...

Random quote Famous quote but today more than ever true: ‘Tis to much purpose to go upon stilts, for, when upon stilts, we must yet walk w...

The Greek goddess Nemesis in the interpretation of Albrecht Dürer Two weeks ago, I analysed hubris as a kind of once-occurring, at least not...

Random quote Arrogance of power [is] a psychological need that nations seem to have in order to prove that they are bigger, better, or stro...

The Fall of Icarus (Lantern console, Utrecht, NL) In my last blog, I described how Idomeneo, King of Crete, opposed the will of a god and th...

Random quote The phenomenon of something happening to a person’s mental stability when in power has been observed for centuries … Perhaps t...

Idomeneo, King of Crete, (Daniel Behle) and his people receiving the applause  after the  performance of Mozart's opera "Idomeneo...

Random quote Boredom results from being attentive to the passage of time itself. William James (1842-1910)  

Baruch de Spinoza In his book Es musste etwas besser werden … (It had to get a little better)   – in which Jürgen Habermas is interviewed b...

Random quote Texts offer their resistance to the reader, philosophical texts even more so. Jürgen Habermas (1929-) 

In old times, it was an often-used method to poison the wells of your enemy. Actually, it’s not only a method of the ancient past. In March ...

Random quote As a single, self-contained person, man can only exist by drawing breath from the space of meanings and reasons shared with ot...

Edward Sapir is especially known for his contributions to linguistics. During his work as a linguist, he studied Native American languages. ...